review the book "Profiling Hackers"

I've been reading the book of Profiling Hackers recently. For now, I only looked through a little bit. There are some topics are very interesting, so I'd like to share with you guys.

This book listed some questions below:

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Why am I interested in hacking?
What are my objectives?
What am I trying to obtain through hacking?
What do I want to become?
What do I want people to think of me?
How do I want to be remembered, and what for?
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It's the matter of the motivation of hacking. IMHO, hackers are always hacking for fun and yes, indeed( we can't deny it, right-_-) ..the profit. AlpheOne's paper's title was sort of philosophical metaphors;-) Both of motivations( fun/profit) are very important. Because if a security guy only care about one of them, it would be devastating for a person( hacker)'s life. 

* Fun? To some hackers, hacking is part of their life. They can't live with hacking. They are happy with joy while writing exploit...

* Profit? Money, of course. White hat working for commercial company. Black hat?

* Both White and Black are possible to sale exploit or get involve with underground business

But....as a hacker, if we: 

Only having the "fun" part. too spiritual dude... and it's hard to make the people( industry) believe you in real-life sec engineering.... Well, if the security is not your day job, that's another story;-)

Only having the "profit" part:
even worse, just like a lot of security conference runners( whores-_-) who only having one slide/topic and guffing around the world. They are a bunch of dead walks

As a real hacker, I do believe that he/she would have both of them.

And, the book also talking about the common trait of hackers, no matters of age, profession, ethnic, etc:

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* They usually have an above average IQ and great technical and problem-solving skills.
* They are brilliant adolescents, suffocated by an inadequate school system and by ill-prepared or poorly equipped teachers.
* They generally come from problem families.
* They rebel against all symbols or expressions of authority.
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It's true. Except the 3rd one is a little bit of vague. How to define the "problem families"? Divorce? or others? If it is mean that a family is lack of proper( btw: wth is *proper*) educate/homeschool for the kid, well...it'd be mean a huge number of families.

I'm not finish the reading. It's really great book. I never found a book which giving a way in sociology to discussion about hackers. The Hacker ethic and the spirit of Information age did some aspect of the work, but Pekka was more focus on the generic hacker( not only in computer/sec field).

The theory of Computer Bible by Shawn the Rock

Im bought some books which are include many important computer field's description that I called "Computer Bible".Because of just want to listing some good stuff for computer engineering not just for computer science,so I will not add The Art of Computer programming.

The newbie of Computer Bible:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition


The algorithm of Computer Bible:Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition


The philosophy of Computer Bible:The Art of UNIX Programming
by the way,I stiil dont understand why China's ISP always forbid us to visit Eric S.Raymond's blog?

The game culture of Computer Bible:Masters of Doom


The database of Computer Bible:An Introduction to Database Systems, Eighth Edition


Please give me some study suggestion if you wish.
have a good day,bro!God be with you!!!

What about dream?

最近看完了 UNIX的编程艺术,在最后一章的最后一段ESR所讲的内容可谓激动人心,可以看出ESR以及很多开源社区的兄弟们为了梦想不断的在创造哲学,文化与技术.愿上帝都祝福他们,能让更多的为着开源社区做出激情贡献的人们能够认识到耶稣基督,找到人类最本质的来源---God

Shawn感谢上帝带领人类开创了自由软件,感谢Eric S.Raymond写了这本可以被称为计算机文化圣经的作品---The Art of Unix Programming,也感谢John Romero,John Carmack创造了id神话,让更多的像Shawn这样的笨蛋也能理解的开源文化.

感谢Eric S.Raymond为所有为开源所奋斗的人们的鼓舞:
Reasons to Believe
The future of Unix is full of difficult problems. Would we truly want it any other way?
For more than thirty years we have thrived on challenges. We pioneered the best practices of software engineering. We created today's Internet and Web. We have built the largest, most complex, and most reliable software systems ever to exist. We outlasted the IBM monopoly and we're making a run against the Microsoft monopoly that is good enough to deeply frighten it.
Not that everything has been triumph by any means. In the 1980s we nearly destroyed ourselves by acceding to the proprietary capture of Unix. We neglected the low end, the nontechnical end users,for far too long and thereby left Microsoft an opening to grossly lower the quality standards of software. Intelligent observers have pronounced our technology, our community, and our values to be dead any number of times.

But always we have come storming back. We make mistakes, but we learn from our mistakes. We have transmitted our culture across generations; we have absorbed much of what was best from the early academic hackers and the ARPANET experimenters and the microcomputer enthusiasts and a number of other cultures. The open-source movement has resurrected the vigor and idealism of our early years, and today we are stronger and more numerous than we have ever been.

So far, betting against the Unix hackers has always been short-term smart but long-term stupid. We can prevail — if we choose to.


同时感谢John Romero发布了1990年在Sheveport小木屋的照片,希望这能鼓舞更多的人追求梦想:


The best way to predict the future is to invent it.May God bless OpenSource community!!!

PS:最近天猪学习的热情飞涨,起的比我早,Shawn已经睡了还在看文档,而且每天坚持读<圣经>,感谢稣哥

Shawn的阅读片段心得(2)

Unix的编程艺术的确是本很不错的书,看了近一半有很多东西因为Shawn实际项目经验的欠缺很难懂,但文化方面的养分吸收的倒比较快,ESR居然也在介绍freeciv这款开源游戏,的确是部好游戏,如果对AI感兴趣的朋友可以去研究研究,ESR在书中讲的很多都是基于KISS原则,早期的黑客文化居然对现在的开源软件甚至整个软件开发方式影响如此之大以前Shawn还真的没思考过.今天突然看到The C Programming Language上一段代码想试试看,结果发现机器上居然还没安compiler,以前Shawn的反应肯定是对着胖子说:"给我VC的安装盘" 但今天的第一想法确是:"干脆在WINDOWS上试试Gcc,能不用盗版就尽量不用吧." 之后发现Mingw用起来也是如此的方便.或许这是Shawn对于完全开源文化接受的开始,路还很长,毕竟光安装配置这可不算什么big deal.Unix风格的开源软件的确让Shawn这个Newbie耳目一新,开始思考以前没有想过的一些问题,而且Quick-Start精神也越来越强了~

照这样下去或许我真的需要看看The New Hacker Dictionary

彪捍的开源不需要解释!!!

今天在freeciv网站上截了一张Screenshot居然是中文freeciv:

Shawn的阅读片段心得

昨天本想早点睡觉今天去培训还要去做礼拜所以11:00PM就把手机关掉了,开始看计算机界的圣经---The Art of Unix Programming,但一看就不知道时间的概念了,越看越兴奋,ESR几乎没一句话都在刺激着Shawn这个怀有人文主义极端情怀的神经,简直太爽的一本书了今天不放点屁出来简直不爽~ESR在谈到UNIX历史时把前2个阶段称为:Gensis(创世记)和Exdous(出埃及记) 很有趣的是这正是Holy Bible(圣经)的前2书,当然Shawn不知道ESR是否是brother,但至少在自由文化运动里的Guru programmer很多是Christian...

还有一个有趣的是ESR在谈到当时很多人都不屑一顾的对GNU的态度和Richard Stallman是因为很多早期的Hacker忘记了黑客精神才创建的GNU,当然很多个巧合后GNU和开源成长起来了,像世纪经典之作EMACS和VI终于有了宿主机Linux.越看越想回到那个时代体验一下当时的文化环境,看到今天JAVA语言和JVM开源已经在一步一步的进行,作为现在的年轻一带的Novice Programmer真的应该多多融入culture才能制作出更具创造性的产品,毕竟整个自由文化运动的核心都来自圣经.

上周Shawn决定在学习JAVA的BS开发中放弃MS SQL作为DB平台而选用MYSQL,这2天测试了一下MySQL community version非常爽,很稳定的开源DB.虽然今年快要毕业了,但丝毫不能阻止Shawn开始对开源的探索---技术和文化.至于找工作的事情就让稣哥来安排吧^_^

屁就这么多吧~不想多放了.

PS:隔壁的Samson(注:我们都叫他胖子)这几天每天晚上都放屁超级大声,今天问他居然还不承认,Sean还冒了句经典的copyleft过的台词:放者无心,听者有意.lol.........

这里有"unix的编程艺术"的电子书E文版,但建议大家买中文版,翻译的还不错.